I love the book

Last week, Professor Gilbert gave us a gift. I really love this book. The title of the book is Free Play and the author is Stephen Nachmanovitch.

The writer contends that “we are all improvisers.” Personally I agree with the statement. Every moment in our lives just happens only once. For instance, I sang a song with my friends under the sunshine at Washington Square, and we added many new elements in this piece of music without practicing before and everyone enjoyed it. Senior ladies and other students gave applause to us. However,when we tried to repeat it next day in classroom, it turned out that we could not play the same piece of music any more.What was worse,some of us could not even remember any element of our improvisation. The environment had been changed. The piece of music we played could reflect our mind and feeling. How could we sing the same song without the same mood? We are the improvisers. This reminded me that when I was a high school student, my mother always prepared dinner for me.  Although the dishes were similar, tastes were different every day. She might not add the same amount of salt or pepper to the dishes.She was also an improviser. Another example is that when the president gives the same speech to students, each time the speech may be different. The gestures, expressions may be various, which means the president is an improviser.

Life is really attractive because it is unpredictable and it cannot be copied. Any person, any moment, and any culture is unique. Every improviser create a wonderful brandnew world.